Walking : The balconies of Cap Roux (Esterel)

A massive expanse of volcanic rocks plunging into the Mediterranean, cliffs of red porphyry. This is what you find by browsing this massive with its three summits offer an exceptional view.

Route

1. Du parking de la Sainte-Baume, go to the fountain, then take a right way to Cap Roux to a crossroads. Leave the path on the left leading to the Col du Cap-Roux, and continue across to the pass of Saint-Pilon (281m).

2. Turn left and continue to rock Cabrier. Turn left onto the rock face of St. Bartholomew a small road, the drive for about 1km.

3. In the 177m altitude, leave the road and take the left path down to the tip of Maubois to a hairpin turn.

4. Turn left on the pin, then continue to a second hairpin turn right, and a third on the left. Back and the neck of Cape Roux (359m).

5. Turn right onto the path that comes from the neck of Saint-Pilon, then turn left. Continue 100m and turn right onto the path that leads to the Pic du Cap Roux.

6. Up to the left on a stony path to the viewpoint (453m, views of the Mediterranean from Cannes to Cap Camarat). Down the same path and take the left path that goes down to the parking.

Remark : 60m before parking, a path on the left leads to the chapel of St. Honorat cave (caution ! up and down vertiginous, secured by cables).

Route

1. From the station Trayas, cross the road and turn left efrrée DFCI H49 track 400m slightly uphill.

2. In the first intersection, leave the track and follow the path uphill about 200m, then continue through the first path on the right that climbs regular slope (view on a clear day, off to the left, the snowy peaks of the Massif du Mercantour) to Notre Dame neck.

Remark: Possible variant : from the neck of Our Lady, can be accessed by a steep path, on the left, at the top of Pic de l'Ours and down the trail on the Bear Tooth ( see dashed route on the map).

3. Crossing the parking pass from the right and follow the path slightly uphill to reach the rock of the Bear Tooth (stunning views over the bay of Cannes and St Raphael, on forest Maures, and in clear weather over the massif of Sainte-Victoire).

4. After the Bear Tooth, continue along the path slightly descenete, which bypasses the West Peak Bear crossing an important “suvière”. After two loops downhill, Trail, dating sloping, leads to a lookout (interior view of the massive).

5. Follow the trail to the pass of false flat Lentisques. Du col, through the forest road and take the left path. We joined the starting point by a long descent overlooking the “Corniche d’Or” before reaching the station Trayas.

Route

1. Parked left, join the trail at the end of parking and across the lake by the bridge.

2. Continue along the road that rises gently in front. Engage left on DFCI track G30. She draws a loop in the valley Carpenée, then arrives at a crossroads (166m).

3. Continue on the trail returns to the lake and dominates (harbor view Pre-Claou, across the lake)

4. Shortly before the southern end of Lake Saint-Cassien, partly right and follow the underground penstock (pumping station). Continue on the street Rocks, Street and Balvédère, left, Rue du Lac. Arrive at the village, passing under the porch, The esterets cross-du-Lac and win the valley Moulires (121m). Take the track to the left and reach an intersection.

5. Take the right track. It rises gently sloping, crosses the valley Withers and high valleys of Pèbre and Berthe, and arrive at a crossroads (276m).

6. Take the right track. It rises gently along the wooded ridge and reached the summit of Brie (347m; hut hunter). Continue on the trail descends towards the lake and return to crossing the go.

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